Eldorado XXI

Set at 18,000 feet in the Peruvian Andes and focused on a community of exploited miners in the small village of La Rinconda, Lamas's probing and uniquely-structured film questions both the means and the ends of material extraction--from both the earth and from the people who do the work. In the aural collage of the film's first half, troubling personal testimony intermingles with the "official word," creating a subtle cacophony of conflict.